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Aperture The Stack: User Manual
Aperture The Stack: User Manual
APERTURE
THE STACK
INTRODUCTION 3
QUICK SPECS 3
DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING 4
THE SPITFIRE APP PREFERENCES 5
THE DEDICATED PLUGIN 6
HAVE A LOOK AROUND 7
PRESET SELECTOR 8
MAIN CONTROLS 10
SIGNALS AND EFFECTS 11
TOP MENU 12
MICROPHONE SIGNALS 15
APPENDIX A — FAQS & TROUBLESHOOTING 16
APPENDIX B — TECHNIQUES/MICS/MIXES 20
APPENDIX C — DEFAULT CC MAPPINGS 21
PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 (latest
Service Pack, 64-bit) Windows 11
If you are a total newbie to this kind of thing you can get up to speed here:
http://www.spitfireaudio.com/info/basics/
First though, grab the ‘Spitfire Audio App’ from this link, this app will enable
you to download the library: http://www.spitfireaudio.com/info/library-manager/
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THE SPITFIRE APP PREFERENCES
LOGIC PRO X
CUBASE
PRO TOOLS
4. TECHNIQUE SELECTOR
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PRESET SELECTOR
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Here you can see the currently selected With the presets view collapsed, you will
preset. Note that all presets are single be able to see the Next, Previous and Save
technique, like “Snare Hits” icons. Next and Previous will simply send
you to the next available preset - if you have
2. FILTERS a filter enabled, you will scroll through the
filtered set of presets. Save allows you to
Each filter sorts the patches based on how save your own preset, click save, name the
they sound. The "Starred" filter will show preset and it will appear under the “user”
patches and presets that have had the star filter.
to the left clicked.
5. PREVIEW
6. PRESET LIST
7. INFORMATION
8. LOAD
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MAIN CONTROLS
1 2 3 3.1
1. VOLUME
2. DYNAMICS
3. KNOB
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TECHNIQUE SELECTOR
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2
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9
10
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Click to select a technique. Shift-Click to With the technique trigger section you can
select multiple techniques. The black dot choose to trigger techniques using various
in the top left shows which technique(s) parameters:
will play, the black outline shows which
technique will be affected by any changes KEYSWITCH: Pick a key on the keyboard
you make to the other options in this page. that will select this technique. The selected
keys will show up in green for unselected
2. VIEW SELECT techniques and in orange for selected
techniques.
Choose between the Technique Selector,
Mixer and Effects. The Mixer and Effects are CC RANGE: Choose a CC# and a range of
covered in different chapters of this manual. values (or a single value) for the control that
you want to trigger this technique.
3. TECHNIQUE NAVIGATION
VEL. RANGE: Switch technique based on
how hard you are playing! You might want
Click the right arrow to access additional
to trigger longs when playing softly and
techniques.
pizzicato when playing hard.
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TECHNIQUE SELECTOR
7. ACTIVATE
8. ROUND ROBINS
9. RESET ON TRANSPORT
11. OPTIONS
12. TRANSPOSE
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EFFECTS
1. CONTROLS E. NOISE
C. RELEASE
D. REVERB
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TECHNIQUE EDITOR
The Technique Editor will allow you to both add and remove techniques from your current
preset, as well as re-arranging the order of the techniques to your own personal preference.
This is opened by selecting the pencil icon (see pg. 13).
• The left ‘Instruments’ panel allows you to • Once you’re done, click ‘Save’. If you have
filter between all available techniques for made a mistake and don’t want to save,
this specific preset. choose ‘Cancel’ instead to go back to your
previous setting.
• The central ‘Techniques’ panel shows all
available techniques for each preset. Click
the ‘+’ to add techniques back into your
current preset.
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TOP MENU
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3. DISK METER Pan the whole plug-in left and right in the
stereo field. Alt-click to reset to centre.
How hard are you taxing your hard drive? If
this is close to, or going over 100% it’s time 10. VOLUME
to consider a faster drive. See next page for
settings that can help get the most out of a Control the overall volume of the instrument.
slower drive
11. LEVEL
4. MEMORY
A visual indication of the level of the
This shows how much RAM you are currently instrument.
using in this instance of Aperture. While
A
the preset is loading, this will show the
instrument loading into memory. B
5. VOICES
12. PRESET SETTINGS
Shows how many voices are being used at
A. VELOCITY RESPONSE — Pick from
any one time.
4 different velocity curves to suit your
controller.
6. REFRESH
B. CC MAPPINGS — Clicking on Reset
Refresh the instrument, alt-click to refresh will reset all of the CC mappings for this
the whole plug-in. This can be useful if you instrument to the defaults - useful if you’ve
have hanging MIDI notes or have moved got yourself in a mess!
samples in your file system
Clear CC Mappings - Delete all CC mappings
7. MIDI CH - this is good if you have a clear idea of what
parameters you want to control and want to
Set the MIDI channel that will control the start from a clean slate
instrument here. If in doubt select “any” so
• Open up the Spitfire Audio App and log in • If you see a “Download interrupted”
with your account email and password. message may be caused by a change in IP,
usually the case with people using a VPN,
• Select the product artwork you wish to re- or people who for some reason started a
download download in one country and tried to resume
it in another. In this case, please submit a
• On this page is a “cog wheel”. Select this, support ticket and we can unblock you.
choose “reset” from the menu. Then “Reset
Entire Download” (for a full download) or • If your download gets stuck and is
(Latest Update) for the latest update. continually cycling and not resuming, please
get in touch with us, giving us as much detail
This will reset your latest update ready for as possible about your set up. It would be
install again. You can repeat this process for helpful if you can tell us your operating
any of the libraries you own. system, where you are downloading from
(your country, and also whether you’re at
Note that there is a limit to how many times home or work), your ISP, and whether there
you can reset your downloads in a certain are any proxy servers or firewalls between
time frame. If you do exceed your reset limit your computer and the internet.
please get in touch.
Q: I HAVE FAST INTERNET, WHY IS
Q: DIFFICULTIES IN DOWNLOADING / MY DOWNLOAD SLOW?
INSTALLING
We have no direct influence on your actual
Customers may find that they have some download speeds, our libraries are hosted
difficulties in the downloading process. If you on Amazon S3 servers which are normally
find that you are having some trouble, please very quick but it may well be that at certain
check the list below for possible causes: times of the day when traffic is particularly
busy, your ISP may throttle your connection
• The formatting of your drive, if it is FAT32 speeds.
this will cause errors, because there is a
maximum file size with this format of 4GB We would advise you to leave your download
and our download files will exceed this limit. running overnight as speeds should ramp
To solve this problem, reformat your drive or up at less busy times. Our Spitfire App
use a different drive. We recommend NTFS downloader aims to use as much of the
on PC and Mac OS Extended ( journalled) on available bandwidth as possible to give you
Mac. the quickest possible speeds, and may take
several minutes to reach its peak.
Other possible issues:
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When it comes to downloading / updating
Q: CAN I TRY BEFORE I BUY? - if you have a folder called ‘Spitfire Audio’
always point the Spitfire App to the folder
Yes! The Stack has a demo patch available Spitfire Audio - never go into this folder and
on the product page on spitfireaudio.com choose the actual library in question.
A handful of customers may find that when Open up the Spitfire Audio App and log in
they log into their Spitfire App, some of with your account email and password.
their previously purchased products do not
show up in the ‘Installed’ section or in the • Select the product artwork you wish to re-
‘Download Ready’ section either. It may download
be that you have purchased these under
another email address. Checking other • On this page is a “cog wheel”. Select this,
possible email addresses for your previous choose “reset” from the menu. Then “Reset
purchases may help to find these missing Entire Download” (for a full download) or
products. If this is not the case, and these (Latest Update) for the latest update.
missing products were purchased a few
years ago, please create a support ticket • This will reset your latest update ready for
telling us your account email address, and install again.
any serial numbers you may have to go
with these missing products. Our support You can repeat this process for any other
team can also merge one or more accounts updates you wish.
together if you’d like to consolidate all your
purchases in one place. If you do not see the option to reset your
download in your Spitfire Audio App, we
The more information we have, the quicker would advise to download the latest version
we can get you back up and running! of the Spitfire App from spitfireaudio.com/
info/library-manager/.
Q: HOW DO I UPDATE MY
PRODUCTS? Q: I’VE BEEN WAITING AGES FOR MY
DOWNLOAD LINKS...???
The main premise of downloading our
products is that our Spitfire App downloads We run all our orders through a fraud
into the folder you choose, so it is important checking process. The automatic fraud check
to choose the folder above where you want takes 20 minutes (but can take up to an
the download to go. The best file path for hour during a very busy period, e.g... Black
our products is something very simple, a Friday), but if your order gets caught at this
long file path will cause errors as there is a stage, we run a manual order check, and this
character limit on how far the Spitfire App can delay the processing of your order for up
can read. We advise a file path of something to 24 hours (though this would be a rare and
along the lines of: Samples Drive > Spitfire exceptional case).
Audio
You should however receive an order
confirmation email IMMEDIATELY upon
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APPENDIX B —
TECHNIQUES
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APPENDIX B —
TECHNIQUES CONTINUED
FX
Clamouring Combo
Clamouring Rip Saw
Clamouring Sub
Clamouring Impact
THE GUITARS
Longs
Long
Long Aggressive
Long Soft
Scattered
Scattered Soft
Swells
Cloud
Tremolo
Shorts
Power Chords
Power Aggressive
Short
Short Muted
THE MACHINES
THE ORIGINAL KITS
The Original
Only Bleed
The Original Kick
The Original Kick Mono
The Original Toms
AFRORACK KITS
Kit Menu
Brawl Kit
Inertia Kit
Influx Kit
Rack Kit
Prime Kit
SURGE KITS
Imitator Kit
Machinist Kit
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APPENDIX C —
DEFAULT CC MAPPINGS
Global Gain 7
Global Pan 10
Expression 11
Dynamics 1
LPF 74
Tightness 18
Release 17
Reverb 19
Noise 15
Portamento 5